Word: bout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...improved Bob Clafila fought to a 1 to 1 draw with Cadet Jee Finley, to whom he lost last year, and the Crimson had its last points of the meet. At 121 Dave Coombs lost his first bout of the season by a 1 to 0 score, while at 188 and 155 Jim Westfall and Jim Conant were both pinned by Army aces Ralph Rasbe and Stanley Thevenet...
...been promised a return bout with Champion Williams, but last week Bob Montgomery thought better of it. At 28 he hung up his boxing gloves-for good, he said. He added, with candor and wisdom: "There's been too many rotten fights the past few months and I've never been connected with any stink in the boxing game. My timing's off, my punches go wild too often and it's time I quit...
...outfit, and the nightclub was one of his clients. Already the owner of a soft drink called "Joe Louis Punch," the champ was thinking of going into the beer business too. What about the next fight? To a gathering of reporters, Louis announced that there would be one more bout in June, but that was all. "I had enough. I been around a long time." Joe said he'd like to fight either Joe Walcott or Light-Heavyweight Gus Lesnevich. Nobody took the remark seriously: it was obviously part of the maneuvering to scale down Walcott's terms...
...Correctly described by Franklin P. Adams as "a 15-round bout at fisticuffs between Mr. Barrow and Mr. Cream...
Wrestling his first bout of the year, Bob Claflin walked away with the 175-pound class with a 4 to 2 decision over Ernest Koehler, as 191-pound captain Pete Fuller followed up with a 6 to 2 decision over Jim Burton...